The laws made In Iraq a long time ago were pretty extreme. In the Hammurabi code, which is the first written set of laws, one of the rules that caught my attention was that “If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off.” This is definitely not enforced in the United States because the punishment doesn’t match up with the crime. The social classes would be affected because if a doctor was to mess up an operation he would be exiled from the city which puts him at the bottom of the social classes. The political aspect would be affected because doctors may revolt against this law because it seems a little
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